DIP 1030, "Named Arguments", has been accepted.
During the assessment, Walter and Atila had a discussion
regarding this particular criticism:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
"Named arguments breaks this very important pattern:
auto wrapper(alias origFun)(Parameters!origFun args)
{
// special sauce
return origFun(args);
}"
They say that, though it's true that `Parameters!func` will not
work in a wrapper, it "doesn't really work now"---default
arguments and storage classes must be accounted for. This can be
done with string mixins, or using a technique referred to by
Jean-Louis Leroy as "refraction", both of which are clumsy.
So they decided that a new `std.traits` template and a
corresponding `__traits` option are needed which expand into the
exact function signature of another function.
They also acknowledge that when an API's parameter names change,
code depending on the old parameter names will break. Struct
literals have the same problem and no one complains (the same is
true for C99). And in any case, when such a change occurs, it's a
hard failure as any code using named arguments with the old
parameter names will fail to compile, making it easy to see how
to resolve the issue. Given this, they find the benefits of the
feature outweigh the potential for such breakage.
